Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 22:29:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at keithlynch.net>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Nancy Drew Author Dies
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

ronkean at juno.com wrote:
> Unless I am mistaken, my mother used to read Nancy Drew mysteries
> when she was a young girl.  It would have never occurred to me to
> think that the author was still living after so long.

Some people start writing at an early age and live a long time.

Robert Heinlein started writing after he was declared seriously ill
and permanently disabled.  He lived nearly 60 more years, making lots
of money, and outliving his doomsaying doctor by half a century.

The producer of Little Rascals, Hal Roach, outlived most of the
children featured in those short movies, most of which were made
before either of my parents were born.  He died in the 1990s.

The philosopher/writer/mathematician Bertrand Russell wrote from the
19th century into the 1970s.

Jack Williamson is a science fiction author who has been writing for
75 years.  He was born in Arizona Territory in 1908, and he moved
to New Mexico in a covered wagon in 1915.  He's still living in New
Mexico and is still writing.
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